Today I learned about Kiviak while reading Moyashimon.
A traditional dish in Greenland made out by fermenting 300-500 birds called auks in a fat sealed seal skin. After three months or more of fermentation the seal is opened and you suck the bird’s juices from their ass.
Sources report that it tastes like gorgonzola or rochefort cheese, so maybe it tastes good after all, though I wouldn’t be brave enough to check the veracity of those claims.
Grossest thing from my homeland is flaki I guess.
Tripe stew.
Too bad its abolutely delicious.
Here is a list of awful food from around the world. There is only one American entry; “Stink head” from Alaska, which is essentially fermented salmon heads.
http://www.culinaryschools.org/cuisine/10-disgusting-delicacies/
I think #3 is the winner.
Casu Marzu is the worst and the only one outlawed on that list.
Here in Argentina some people eat pork heads, and their feet are used in soups. Roasted cow small intestines (chinchulines) are extremely popular, most asados have them. Seasoned tongues, stomachs (mondongo), brains, udders, hearts, we waste nothing. Carnivorous country, this one.
Disgusting local food? White people food (excluding Texas BBQ or Cajun), #racist
I’ve heard Surstromming is one of the most disgusting things you can eat, I was never interested in trying it.
I had Durian, it’s not that bad. You just have to get over the fact that you are eating a fruit with an odd texture that tastes like onions and old cheese.
I tried A-ping(fried tarantula) in Cambodia, it wasn’t that bad if you didn’t think about what you were eating. I didn’t eat the abdomen, just the head and body. It was kind of bland. The abdomen has intestines, fecal matter and spider eggs. I didn’t want to try it.
He’s right. That way you will have something to eat that will overpower the inevitably awful taste of that canned slop. 
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All the foods you’re talking about are delicious.
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Mmmm, delicious sheep’s head.
We also eat rotted fish (called “rakfisk”) and fish that has been lying in lye for about six days (called “lutefisk”).
Norwegian cuisine is confirmed excellent.
edit: also, regarding Kecka’s first post: Surströmming is the closest thing Sweden ever got to developing a biological weapon of mass destruction. The smell is indescribable.
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Surströmming is banned from certain airlines and is illegal in every country in the EU except for Sweden.
I’m nonhispanic and ate all of those things. I stay away from pork these days because my body doesn’t handle pork eating well.
Did you just call cajun food, white people food? Ethnicities from around the world contributed to Cajun culture and is not all French.
To be honest, the taste isn’t horrible. Then again, I’m Scandinavian and have been raised on pickled herring (which is fucking amazing). The issue is that the smell is so goddamn overpowering it is impossible to taste anything. Sealing that smell for so long means the fish is nose-fucking you to death whether you want to or not.
Yea being polish, we love herring. Have entire grocery aisles dedicated to it.
But only pickled… Not that moldy mush the Stockholmers are eating.
Now you are just making up stuff. No actual country bans Surströmming from sale. Airliners baning the fish from being on board is not the law of the land.
I am sure maggot filled “Cheese” that can kill you literally is far worst from smelly fermented fish.
I can buy Surströmming in the United States off Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Oskars-Surströmming-300g-surstromming-challenge/dp/B01N9TDOXL
Most of our local stuff is pretty delicious. Had some Americans go what the hell but it’s nothing like the OP.
Few examples,
Beef pie. I know you had pot pies and stuff but it’s like, we’ll put bacon bits and onion in it and potato with melted cheese on top and all sorts of things. It’s basically our hotdog.
Beef sausage with onion in a slice of bread with ketchup. Sometimes people will put coleslaw on it.
We sometimes put egg on pizza.
Crumbed chicken shallow fried with pizza sauce and melted cheese grilled over it, sometimes ham pieces or bacon.
Various different ways of doing a lamb chop, like a lamb steak basically barbecued with salt, garlic, pepper and onion commonly.
You know other less common local stuff like barramundi, roos, rock lobster, abalone… nothing too extreme. I guess there is bush food like witchetty grubs but no one seriously sits down and eats a meal out of that, even natives don’t it’s just for tourists.
GOMEN NA SAI!
No, I’m serious.
Granted, the official reason is that the fish is in violation of EU food safety regulation, but let’s not kid ourselves; this shit cannot be imported to the EU because it is fucking disgusting, not because of the dioxin/PCB-levels.
The deadly maggot cheese being even worse is one thing, I was just addressing your claim that Casu Marzu was the only one that wasn’t legal =V
None of what you posted showed a EU food ban on the Fish.
I never claimed it was banned. I claimed it was in violation with EU regulations on PCB- and dioxin-concentrations in food, and thus isn’t legal to import to (or make in) other EU-countries than Sweden.